Chapter 98: 18: The First Northern Expedition, Clearing the Countryside (35)

The new player's words made King Zhuge look quite embarrassed, but fortunately it was still dark and the new player didn't notice it.

The player was still asked to use a carriage to send himself to the vicinity of Iltsk Oasis. King Zhuge also opened the map and marked the place where he died. Then he began to survey other unknown areas on foot.

This survey took a whole day. At night, seeing that there was still one-third of the area that had not been surveyed, King Zhuge found a secluded corner to hide in, and then logged off with peace of mind.

On the third day, King Zhuge came online again and woke up from the resurrection pool again. He was stunned when he saw Yileimiao and others who also woke up in the resurrection pool.

"Dead? You guys died too?"

"died!"

"It looks like they are all dead. Did the barbarians do it?"

"I guess so. This game doesn't have a death replay, otherwise we would know what happened last night."

Several surveying players had a discussion, told the players the news on the forum, and then started to go to Iltsk Oasis for surveying.

Three days passed in a flash. Zhuge Wangye and others who had completed the rough survey copied their own maps and put them on the forum. As the commander, Su Shan hand-drew a simple battle map based on the maps of the four players.

Looking at the crude map of the Iltsk Oasis, Su Shan pinched his chin. He not only wrote and drew on paper, but also looked for his friends to discuss a good offensive strategy together.

"I don't know the enemy's information, so I can only use human lives to find out."

After formulating the battle strategy, Su Shan began to conduct simple training for the players, while supervising He Ao, Zheng Sanshui and others to check their preparation progress.

Two days later, on October 1073, 10 in the Imperial Calendar, Su Shan, the commander, led forty-two players to hold a swearing-in ceremony at the gate of Yancheng.

"Brothers, we are about to officially start our first dungeon."

"To be honest, the term 'dungeon' is very common in games, but in a game with 100% immersion, I always feel weird about it."

Su Shan pointed to the location of the Iltsk Oasis in the north and shouted: "The Iltsk Oasis is located to our north, so let's call this action the Northern Expedition!!"

Northern Expedition, secondly, is not an accurate term, but after five days of preparation, the players, whose atmosphere has been aroused, naturally will not care about the term.

"Go, go, go, brothers, let's go north!"

"This is our first Northern Expedition, and we must achieve some great results!"

The first Northern Expedition, out of Yancheng!
Several carriages carrying sixty-five players headed towards the Iltsk Oasis. This time, in addition to the forty-three-member team led by Su Shan, other players also joined in the fun.

Iltsk Oasis does not limit the number of players. In addition to Su Shan’s small team, other players can also go to the dungeon on their own.

In addition, the new expansion pack includes dungeon missions such as preparing for battle, transporting, harassing, clearing the jungle, killing enemies and siege, and other players also have to complete the missions.

Sixty-five players were not a huge army, but after the carriage had traveled for an hour and a half, the players arrived near the Iltsk Oasis.

"Get off the chariot!"

"Form a battle array!" Following Su Shan's order, forty-two players quickly got down from the chariot. The players holding ring-handled swords quickly came to the front row, facing the barbarians, and waited in battle array.

Players who went to the martial arts arena to learn horseback archery at their own expense stood in the back row of the ring-handed swordsmen, bent their bows and waited!

Forty-three players holding weapons and standing in formation, staring at each other, looked quite imposing. After waiting for all the players to get off the bus, Su Shan began to issue orders.

"We must change our previous habits of playing games and not treat Iltsk Oasis as a copy that can be manipulated at will, but as a large gathering place for enemies."

"So when we attack the Iltsk Oasis, we must not be too impatient and must proceed step by step!"

Su Shan waved his hand and issued today's order: "Group five people, led by a job-changing player, and start clearing the land!"

"Kill all the food, cattle, sheep and other animals, even wolves and other wild beasts."

The tactic of clearing the countryside is generally used when the enemy invades.

But for Sushan, the tactic of clearing the countryside was used against the Iltsk Oasis.

With the current strength and combat power of the players, directly attacking the Iltsk Oasis is obviously like hitting a rock with an egg. The most correct tactic is to gradually erode the barbarians of the Iltsk Oasis from the outside.

After all, players can be resurrected infinitely, and their military forces are endless.

But the barbarians in the Iltsk Oasis have no ability to resurrect. Their numbers are limited, and if they want to increase the tribal strength, they can only rely on looting and survival.

Forty-three players, led by Niu Bu, Zhuge Wangye, Yileimiao and others, quickly dispersed in groups of five.

Within eight days after the new expansion was launched, they first spent three days building barracks and then five days preparing for war.

Eight days, a full eight days.

Do you know how hard it is to not be able to fight in the game for eight days?
The scattered players holding ring-handled swords were really screaming and howling. They kept searching for any possible living creatures on the outskirts of Iltsk Oasis, including gerbils living in the desert. All of them were pulled out by the players and chopped down with one sword.

The players were like locusts, leaving no grass wherever they went. As the commander, Su Shan watched the players disappear in the vast desert and took out a piece of rice paper from his pocket.

On the rice paper was a somewhat sloppily drawn battle map, in which the three locations on the west, north and east sides of the Iltsk Oasis were heavily marked by Su Shan.

"Although the walls of Iltsk Oasis are wooden guardrails, if players want to attack them by force, they will just be sending themselves to death."

"Since we are all giving away our lives, then the magical powers of Zhuge Wangye and Yilei Miao can be put to good use."

"The Bing Yin Yang School is naturally suited to defeating the enemy with fewer troops. As long as one of my three strategies works, this Northern Expedition will be a success!"

When there were only 42 soldiers, Su Shan still decisively divided them into three parts. The three parts of the troops attacked from three directions of the Iltsk Oasis. As long as one of the strategies could work, this Northern Expedition would be a huge success.

With only 42 people, they achieved remarkable results against more than 4000 enemies. This is enough to go down in history in Earth OL!
42 players disappeared in the vast desert. Some of the remaining players who came to watch the fun also followed the main group of players and took advantage of the opportunities behind them.

After all, in Yancheng, a city with scarce supplies, even picking up a gerbil and roasting it to eat is much more enjoyable than eating thick vegetable porridge all the time.

(End of this chapter)